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10 Escudos
| Issuer | Angola |
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| Year | 1952-1955 |
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| Weight | 5 g |
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| Reverse lettering | ANGOLA 10$00 |
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| Mintage | 1952 - - 2,023,000 1955 - - 1,977,000 |
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Angola's 10 Escudos series of the early 1950s was struck under Portuguese colonial administration, a period when Lisbon was tightening economic control over its African territories through the Estado Novo regime's Colonial Act framework. Silver coinage of this weight and fineness was still practical currency in Angola at the time, though the colony's economy ran heavily on coffee and diamond exports rather than coin-driven retail trade. The .720 fineness matches the reduced silver standard Portugal had adopted for colonial issues after the war, keeping metropolitan and overseas coinage on parallel but distinct footing.